i just recently installed an ITR front sway bar on my 96 DX coupe and i noticed it hangs very low under the frame. it looks like it can get snagged if something is sticking out of the ground. i looks like two u-loops.

i know i installed it correctly (or did i?) and it functions correctly too. i was just wondering why it hangs so low ?! everything works fine, no rubbing, no problems other than a lower ground clearance .

setup:
-ITR FRONT swaybar (bushings, brackets, endlinks)
-ITR front lower arms (attached to DX rear bushings, DX brackets, and DX front lower portion of the arm where the balljoint goes)

 

It's incorrectly installed. The middle hump is supposed to go over the exhaust right next to the subframe.

EDIT: The third pic looks like it's installed correctly, but I don't know why it hangs so low. Do you have the endlink bolting the sway going from bottom to top, or top to bottom?

 

yeah, it's upside down. Flip it, spin it 180, and throw it back in.

 

my sway bar goes up over
yours is upside down

 

how come you didnt just bump the other thread you started on this same topic a few weeks ago? i was wondering what happend, you just stopped postin.

 

yeah i thought this sounded familiar.. heh

yeah..upside down...like i think i said in the other post.

 

the thread was archieved! it was weird i couldn't post on it.

anywho thanks for the responses and the pic willie. however you have a different bar than mine. look again at mine. after the bushing the bar bends downwards then up again. yours just goes straight then up. weird.

the order of installation to the arm is as follows (from top to bottom): swaybar, endlink, lower arm. is this correct?

 

i'm 100% sure it's installed correctly. ah i can see how you guys are thinking that it's upside down. if that were the case there would only be ONE loop sticking out. in my case there are two! and yes the bar still goes over the exhaust (i had to unbolt it from the header when installing).

maybe i have a 98-spec bar?!

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by timmy0tool &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i'm 100% sure it's installed correctly. ah i can see how you guys are thinking that it's upside down. if that were the case there would only be ONE loop sticking out. in my case there are two! and yes the bar still goes over the exhaust (i had to unbolt it from the header when installing).

maybe i have a 98-spec bar?!</TD></TR></TABLE>

No, its upside down. look how low it hangs, thats not installed right at all.

 

Wouldnt it have been easier to use a 99-00 SI front bar? EK vs Teg chassis is different. Was it wide enuff across both front arms? Try turning it over as everyone has said.

 

you installed it wrong bud.. you have to remove your cat and b-pipe (or let it all hang) to put on the front sway bar just uninstall it and flip around









Modified by cxSHOE at 5:55 PM 12/18/2006


Modified by cxSHOE at 6:01 PM 12/18/2006

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 97civicdx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Wouldnt it have been easier to use a 99-00 SI front bar? EK vs Teg chassis is different. Was it wide enuff across both front arms? Try turning it over as everyone has said.</TD></TR></TABLE>

true, i didnt even know you could put a DC bar on a 96-00 civic, i know its plug and play for a 92-95 civic but thats a different chasis than 96-00

 

is it upside down!

 

LMAOO.... ITS 2AM, that just made my morning.... i thought i was the king of doing stupid *** **** exactly like that.....wow man, you rule...i couldnt have put it in upside down better myself. i didnt even know that was possible.
dont get me wrong, im not ragging on you, i think that was awsome.